Quickly go to the end of “syntax highlighted” element

Question

I am using syntax highlighting to help with writing LaTeX documents in vim. My documents involve a lot of brackets, and it is easy to do a trivial mistake and end-up with something which doesn't compile; though it can be fixed, it wastes a lot of time.

Question : Is there any way to jump to the end/start of the highlighted pair? In the following picture \left\{ is recognised as a partner for \right\}, how to go to anywhere near (start or end or middle) of \right\} if the cursor is on :

• \left\{

• somewhere between \left\{ and \right\}

Edit : As per comments -

+\sqrt{\frac{i}{2}} \sqrt{\frac{i-1}{2}} \left\{ e^{i t_{1} E_{i,i-1}} e^{i t_{2} E_{i-1,i}} - e^{i t_{2} E_{i,i-1}} e^{i t_{1} E_{i-1,i}} \right\} - \sqrt{\frac{i}{2}} \sqrt{\frac{i-2}{2}} \cancelto{0}{\left\{ e^{i t_{1} E_{i,i-1}} e^{i t_{2} E_{i-1,i-2}} - e^{i t_{2} E_{i,i-1}} e^{i t_{1} E_{i-1,i-2}} \right\}} \\

Answer 1

You can use the matchit plugin for this. It supports many languages, and seem to work great with LaTeX.

It allows you to use % to jump between matching tags.

To install it, you can simply add this line to your vimrc file:

packadd! matchit

Or instal from the repo with your favourite plugin manager.